Saturday, 6 August 2016

5 in 5 - MELANIE - August 2016

Melanie is my friend who lives in Australia and she loves photography. Every month since the start of this challenge Melanie has taken part in this monthly meme and as she doesn't have her own blog I post here. I love that we have found a way for her to take part, so over to you Melanie:Hi this
month my 5 in 5 is a very staged 5 in 5. No spontaneous snaps. This
month in and around Adelaide there is the South Australian festival of arts:-
Sala. http://www.salafestival.com/

I
checked out a few of the venues with exhibitions and my intention was to
go to two today and hopefully find between the two a five minute slot to take
photos. My day turned out completely not what I planned. I didn’t
even make it to one venue so I needed to think again for a photo subject and it
needed to be something around my home. Since the 5th of the month
has fallen on a Friday I decided to use a snapshot of our regular Friday
activity as my 5 in 5 photos. Most Fridays we cook pizzas and our
daughter and grandson join us to eat them. Today was no exception but our
grandson was around helping with most of the prep. He loves being
involved and did all the measuring of the ingredients for the pizza dough and
had fun when helping rolling out the dough. He is two so I will leave the
image of his rolling out dough to your imagination and just add it involves
tasting the raw dough. I took my photos at the point when all the prep
was done and the oven was on heating but before the dough was being rolled and
the pizzas assembled for cooking. In the top left hand photo the dough is
ready for rolling. In the top right hand photo some topping
ingredients. In the bottom left hand photo there is the pizza oven , this
is an outdoor gas oven. Then there are two photos on the right hand side
bottom one of two cheese toppings, feta and haloumi and the other with tomato
for a margarita pizza and a topping of asparagus and capsicum. That is it
for August. Hopefully I shall get to see some of the Sala exhibitions but
they are only around for the month of August so no good for the next 5 in 5. I
shall just have to put my thinking cap on for September.

Thank you for joining in Melanie, I really enjoyed the photos and telling of Friday traditions. Cooking pizza is something we like to do, especially with my granddaughters. They like to make their own toppings too but I have never seen an pizza oven like yours. I'm rather impressed! I hope you get to the festival of arts, lucky you to have it so close to home.

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If this has inspired you to pick up your camera and take partthis post will answer questions and give the information that you need. And if you want to see other 5 in 5 photos for this month just go to the original post.

Hopefully Melanie will be back next month and I look forward to you joining us. Thank you for popping by, it is great to have your company.

Lovely to see your pizza oven - very impressed! Not seen a domestic one of these before ... I smiled at the antics of your two-year old - brings back happy memories, as we often used to make 'mini pizzas' with our children using a scone dough.